Death toll rises in Aleppo 50000 flee in four daysA series... Death toll rises in Aleppo 50000 flee in four days A series of artillery rounds lobbed Wednesday on Syrias eastern Aleppo district killed 26 civilians including seven children as they fled a government ground offensive in the besieged enclave. It was the second time the Jub al-Quba neighborhood in the historic district of the rebel-held eastern side of the city was struck in as many days. An airstrike Tuesday blamed by…

Day in pictures: 8 February 2012

The Syrian city of Homs has come under renewed bombardment for the fifth day running - the heaviest so far, residents have told the BBC. Activists say more than 40 people have died as a result of the new shelling, but this is difficult to verify.

Winter for Syrian refugees: "They are lucky to escape the barrel bombs, sniper fire and shelling, but there’s no escaping winter. “Home” for many of these refugees are settlements at higher elevations like the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, which has been hit by extreme weather over the past few years. Even refugees living in cities are vulnerable. With little money for rent, they can only afford substandard housing. Others live in abandoned or unfinished buildings" (2016).

Syria's White Helmets Among "Alternative Nobel" Prize Winners

Malik Sabag a 15-year-old Syrian civil defense, Malik is Having some break time in the civil defense center at Bab al-nairab neighborhood district in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, septemper 30, 2015. The Civil Defense in syria who are known as the white helmets work neutrally ,and their jobs are to pull out the people who are stuck under the rubble and put down the fire in syria which are caused by the shelling